First of all, because I have made it known that I am a Freemason and because I am using this site as a place where I can post my views about Freemasonry, I need to make it very clear that I do NOT speak for Freemasonry in any way and that the opinions expressed here are purely those of a deranged mind… Mine. I speak for myself and no one else; although, if you do want to follow me and support my views, please send me money and these views can be yours as well.

Now, on to my beef.

It has been a few weeks since my last post and since then President Obama’s “Health Care Plan” was passed. Now, this is not one of those “OH MY GOD! WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS!!!” posts. As a matter of fact this is an anti-socialist-capitalist-democrat-republican-liberal-conservative, God Bless America post that is sure to piss someone off.

Now I also need to make it clear that I have NOT read the 900+ page book; which, incidentally is 900+ pages precisely for the purpose of keeping the normal citizen from reading it and expressing their opinions. Anyway, this post is not, necessarily, about the “Health Care Plan” as much as it is about the way our Government is ran, so I don’t need to take the week off from work to read a book that most of our law-makers never bothered to read either.

To create a law that forces its’ citizens to purchase a widget for a private industry or face fines and imprisonment is and should be unconstitutional and illegal! We The People would be revolting in the streets, burning torches and drafting Declarations Of Independence if this happened in the 1700’s. No taxation without representation is all it took the first time. Hell, I bet if this happened when our fore-fathers were alive they would have burnt Washington DC to the ground and started all over.

In this country our government creates laws, such as children must wear helmets while riding bikes or go to jail. You must wear a seatbelt when driving your car and wear life vests while boating or go to jail. No smoking in public places or no smoking 20-feet from an entrance to a public place or it’s off to the dungeons with ye! You must shovel the snow and ice from your sidewalks, any child under 5-foot must be in a specially designed child-restraint seat or it’s “Off with his head”!

Sure smoking is bad for your health and an all around icky thing to do and having your kids wear a bike helmet saves them from injury. If you don’t shovel your sidewalks someone might slip and injure themselves. Seatbelts and child car-seats are proven to reduce injuries in a car wreck as well as save lives. Notice a theme here?

First of all President Obama doesn’t give a damn whether I live or die. As a matter of fact, I bet ya, he won’t even show up at my funeral. Hell, he won’t even know I am gone. There is not one single politician or law-maker who truly gives two shits about my personal well-being. So why are they creating laws that protect me from injury? Simple, because someone pays them a boat-load of cash to pretend they are acting for our best interest when in actuality they are designed to save the insurance companies money.

They [the insurance companies] pay people millions of dollars to “persuade” law-makers to pass laws that protect their [the insurance companies] bottom line and save them billions on health related claims. Come to think about it maybe it is not the insurance companies that I have been mad at all these years, maybe its just smart business. Pay out millions to save billions. Capitalism at its finest! Perhaps, instead, it’s the greedy bastards creating the laws who are to blame.

For instance, say I owned a factory that made sweatbands and I wanted to find a way to sell more of those sweatbands. I figured out a way to prove that my sweatbands could save someone life and promised my local law-maker a nice steak dinner once a week if he would force anyone who jogged in the city to buy and wear my sweatbands. Next thing you know it is now law that if you jogged in the city you had to buy sweatbands.

Who is at fault? Was it the business owner for finding a way to sell more sweatbands? I don’t think so. He had the money to pay-off the greedy law-maker who, in turn, created an absurd law, forcing joggers to pay this business owner to jog in the city. Thats just smart business if you ask me. As for the crooked politician, now that’s a different story. Personally I think he should be publicly hung, his body burnt and his ashes dumped out on the floor of a road side rest area’s shit house.

Now I know that a law-maker forcing joggers to wear sweatbands may seem to be a little far fetched but in actuality its not so far off, as a matter of fact its pretty tame compared to what is actually happening. To be a free citizen of this country you must pay a private industry cash every month for a piece of paper to drive a car or get a loan from a bank for a home for your family.

Congratulations must go out to the insurance companies, now if you want to drive a car or own a home you gotta buy their sweatbands. Best of all, their [insurance companies] sweatbands are specifically designed to fall apart ever y30 days so you have to buy a new one every month…

But wait…

These laws only effect people who own homes and/or drive cars. What about all those millions of potential customers out there that don’t own homes or drive cars?

The simple solution would be to run the health care costs so sky high that no one can afford it and offer a service that would help them [the people] pay the bill. Next you offer a steak dinner to any law-maker who votes “yes” on a law that would force ANYONE who wants to be a citizen of the United States of America to buy sweatbands or face imprisonment! They could even all it “Health Care Reform” and show pictures of the poor people, who can’t afford sweatbands, dieing in the streets because they can afford proper health care.

Ladies and Gentlemen this is not Socialized Medicine. This is Capitalized Medicine American style. If it was truly socialized medicine there would be no need for health insurance companies. Health care would be free to everyone, rich or poor. Well, free as in paid for by the taxes you pay of course. But that is money that is paid straight to the government just as it is for our police and fire protection.

I work for a small business owner, installing home security systems. There are two employees of this company, me (the technician) and the owner (salesman, secretary, office manager) I don’t have health insurance and “the company” can not afford to offer me insurance. From my understanding, in this case, because the company is so small, I will be forced to purchase my own health insurance or face imprisonment (I use the word imprisonment because after I refuse to pay fines they will imprison me).

Okay, so the cost will be lowered to be “affordable”.

I make $8.50 and hour, which is respectable here in Nowhere, Ohio, and at 40 hours per week I make around $1190 per month. Now take away $400 for rent, $20 in water, $100 for electric, $400 for food (for myself, three growing boys and wife) and $280 in gas All that totals $1200 per month just in the need-to-haves and I am already 10 bucks in the hole a month. If this new insurance plan is going to be affordable they [the insurance companies] are gonna have to pay ME for their sweatbands!

I hear ya, find a new job! Well some one has to work for this guy or he will go out of business. Just because he doesn’t have the advertising money that ADT or Brinks has, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have the right to operate a business. Or, maybe it does. We are Capitalists after and the point of Capitalism is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Inflict the poor with laws that force them to pay even more to be a citizen of this great country and, if they are too poor, lock them away in a dark dungeon someplace where the rich won’t have to look at them.

What our government is doing to it’s citizens is, and should, be illegal and unconstitutional and we need another Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to stand up once again and burn DC to the ground. But, that will never happen. There is simply too much money floating around the politicians and the people we are forced to elect are all greedy bastards that know how to play the game.

Want to be rich in this country and not like working for your money? Become a politician and get it handed to you to pass laws that don’t effect you anyway. “Lets see I make a gazillion dollars a week and pay out a few million a month… Hell Ya! Whats a measly 100 bucks a month? Thats chump change to me everyone should be able to afford that.”

The only job requirements are the ability to speak in a crowd, dress nice and have absolutely no empathy for your fellow man. Oh yea, the most important quality is a love for money.

Would someone mind sending me the lyrics to the Canadian Anthem? It’s for damned sure that Obama, or any other politician for that matter, would even know I was gone. Well, until tax time anyway. Actually I’m poor and get a refund so they may just pay to move me so they don’t have to look at me or pay my food while I live in their dungeons.

President Obama… You should be ashamed of yourself!

Oh, I can hear it now. The law-makers puffing out their chests and proclaiming all that is good about this plan. The fact that you can not be turned down because of a preexisting condition is a great thing. Then proceed to tell hard luck stories of people who lost their sweatbands, and because they were high risk to lose it again were not allowed to purchase them anymore. Because of this they were not allowed to jog and thus ended up dieing of heart disease.

Sure, the preexisting thing is a great idea. How else could the insurance companies get the entire population to buy their widgets? Of course they had to bend a little and were happy to do it. Spend a million to make a gazillion. And how else could the law-makers convince the people that it’s a good thing? By polishing up a terd and presenting it as a fine jewel. All for a nice steak dinner.

The first time the Insurance Police come knocking on my door wanting their money is the day I pack up the kids and head to The Great White North. Perhaps by then the Canadian people and supporters will have developed an underground railroad to help those, who wish to be truly free, gain safe passage out of the promise land.

Oh now there is a word. Free! Freedom! Our government claims that we are the freest country in the world. After all I have the right to say what I feel and it is because of the freedom that our government affords to us that gives me the right to do so.

Lets think for a moment what freedom means.

1. Okay, so I have the right to worship what and where I choose: As long as it doesn’t offend someone else, it’s the proper Christian God and the proper taxes are paid to the proper people.
2. I have the right to say what I feel: As long as someone doesn’t feel that it could be considered a national security issue. Hell, even our private phone conversations are being recorded to used as evidence against us.
3. I have the right to bare arms: Which is so damned vague that no one really knows what it means. It could meant that I have the right to own, carry and shoot any firearm that I choose. Or, it could simple mean that I am allowed to wear short sleeve shirts in public.
4. I have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: God only knows what that means but it sure sounds good. I think though it means that as long as I pay the man I have the right to be happy. I sure as hell wont be very happy living in a dungeon because I couldn’t buy health insurance.

Many Americans have died protecting these rights for me and for that I should be grateful. Honestly however, there is only one group of Americans that actually died protecting those rights. Those are the brave men and women who gave up everything they owned during the American Revolution. After that our military men and women were sent off to foreign lands to impose our way of life on other people. Personally I care as much for how some dictator treats his people as The President of the United States care about my personal well-being.

If they are being treated so bad, why don’t they stand up and do something about it? We didn’t like England telling us what to do and charging us unfair taxes, so we stopped and did something about it. It’s not like they were committing genocide on us or anything. We just didn’t like the taxes, revolted and got rid of England’s rule and for Christ’s sake we were out numbered a hundred to one!

However I truly thank God for those men and women who serve our country to protect and defend our rights. I just despise the war pigs who send them [our children] off to fight in the name of the almighty dollar.

Got a genocide problem? Got Oil? Here I come to save the day!

Got a genocide problem? Oh, you’re poor… Ummm. All lines are busy at the moment.

Well I better stop now before I really piss someone off and make the National Security Watch List.

So I will just finish by saying…

But… I’m just a man and I could be wrong.

Until next time…

-SF

PS. If you are a politician and truly care about my well being please feel free in sending me money so show me how much. Remember, the more you give the more you care. Donation links are on the right.

What about biblical prophecies? Could this be the day of final reckoning, when the Lord of Lords returns to take his children to the New Jerusalem? Well, unless Jesus meant to leave out the Mayans when he said: “… and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.” -(Revelation of John 3:3, KJV), which I doubt. It would have made it a lot easier if he said; “no one will know, except for the Mayans, when I will return.”

WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?

My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq regime has been completed.

Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.

This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now to begin the reckoning….

I am sick and tired of offending myself trying not to offend someone else.
I celebrate Christmas and if you don’t, you have the choice to NOT have a Merry Christmas.

Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” -Theodore Roosevelt 1907

My thought is, this country was created because we didn’t like England and the Queen. We wanted a different type of government, so we left England and created the United States.

How does it go? “Bring us your poor…”. We are all immigrants (except for those that are American Indians, but that is a different story) in one way or the other.

My idea is to open up the borders to Mexico and invite everyone who wants to be an American Citizen. We can station a bunch of people with computers at crossing points and they would ask your name and print you out a Social Security Card on the spot.

Once Mexico’s economy is shot because they have no citizens to work THEIR plants, the American government simply asks “How much you want for that piece of land?” Tada! We add 1 more star to our flag and move the border to Panama. Most of the immigrants will move back to their home lands and still live as Americans with American rights and paying American employment and sales taxes.

Immigrant problem solved.

One more thing…. They would not be Mexican Americans they would be Americans speaking American.

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule “braying” – or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened…and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.

Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back…a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back…HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did blow after blow.
“Shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up!” he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought “panic” and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!

It was not long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL. What seemed like would bury him actually blessed him…all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity. THAT’S LIFE! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness or self-pity…THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE WITHIN THEM THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT AND BLESS US! Remember FORGIVENESS-FAITH-PRAYER-PRAISE and HOPE…. all are excellent ways to “SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP”, out of the wells in which we find ourselves!

ONE MORE THING…

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”